Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
